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Math Prof Eugene Dynkin Dies at Age 90 By SOFIA HU
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The College of Architecture, Art and Planning was ranked the top undergraduate architecture school in the 2015 rankings by DesignIntelligence, a bi-monthly research report focusing on technology, architecture and design. In addition, the Master of Architecture program was ranked the top fifth graduate program. The graduate program in landscape architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was ranked third.
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Renowned mathematician Prof. Emeritus Eugene Dynkin, mathematics, died on Nov. 14 in Cayuga Medical Center, according to the University. He was 90. Dynkin — known for his work in algebra and probability theory — served in the Department of Mathematics for over 30 years. Dynkin was born in 1924 in Leningrad, Russia, under the Stalin regime, according to Dynkin wrote in the foreword of Selected Papers of E. B. Dynkin with Commentary. In 1935, his
family was exiled to Kazakhstan; his father disappeared two years later in the Gulag. At the age of 16, Dynkin entered Moscow University, according to the University. In his book, he wrote that he considered his acceptance “a miracle,” as both the disappearance of his father and his Jewish background made him unfavorable in the eyes of the university’s administration. Dynkin earned his M.S. in mathematics in 1945 and his Ph.D. in physics and mathematics in 1948 from Moscow University. His research focused on using simple roots to study
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Local Hotel Guests Evacuated After Late Night Fire
Approximately 100 people were displaced from the Best Western hotel on Ellis Hollow Road when a laundry room caught on fire at 11:15 p.m. Thursday. The occupants were displaced to nearby hotels. According to a press release, 10 responders from the Ithaca Fire Department put out the fire. Ithaca Police Department, Residents Take Racial Profiling Training
Approximately every Ithaca Police Department officer and about 40 local residents participated in a special federal training program last week, according to a City of Ithaca press release. The four-hour-long training sessions on anti-racial profiling were offered by U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Relations Services, according to the release.
State After Heavy Snowfall, Buffalo Prepares for Floods
As the seven feet of snow that fell in the Buffalo area begins melting, the National Weather Service is issuing flood warnings, according to The New York Times. Temperatures in Buffalo may reach up to 60 degrees on Monday. According to Mayor Byron Brown, over 85,000 tons of snow was shipped out of south Buffalo and Kaisertown. At least 12 people died during the snowstorm. NYC Police Officer Kills Unarmed Man
Rookie police officer Peter Liang shot and killed a 28 year old Akai Gurley in Brooklyn on Thursday evening. Police Commissioner William Bratton said Gurley was unarmed and a “total innocent” who ran into Liang in a dark stairwell. The police internal affairs is investigating the shooting, according to CNN. Liang had less than 18 months on the job and has been stripped of his gun and badge. — Compiled by Sofia Hu
Lie algebras, a form of linear calculus and more specifically on algebra. Markov chains. “A few times I was lucky to “Some of my results demandfind a new approach ed rather lengthy comwhich simplified an putations but the most important theory,” exciting was to find Dynkin wrote. from time to time a His work began a simple new connecschool in Lie Groups tion between apparin Moscow in the ently unrelated phe1950s. Dynkin used nomena,” he wrote. “Dynkin diagrams,” In 1976, Dynkin which are widely emigrated to the used by mathematiUnited States and PROF. DYNKIN cians and elementary began working at particle physicists, according to Cornell — which he called “a the University press release. great center in probability theoDuring this time, Dynkin ry” — the following year, also began working on stochastic according to the book. “I found here kind and friendly colleagues; gorgeous scenery of forests, lakes and waterfalls; and a few bright graduate students with whom I have started a seminar of the Moscow type,” he wrote. “The most exciting was a new feeling of freedom and independence of big and little bosses — something which I never enjoyed in my previous life.” Dynkin retired in 2010. During his academic career, Dynkin authored over 186 research papers and 12 books. Dynkin also created the Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, which includes digitized copies of over 150 interviews he conducted with mathematicians, according to the collection web page. Dynkin is survived by his wife, his daughter, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. YICHEN DONG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.
C.U. Doorstep Brings Chipotle Straight to Campus Student-run company may expand service to provide Panera, Five Guys By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer
C.U. Doorstep — a new student-run food service that delivers Chipotle to pick-up locations around campus — is taking orders through their website as of last Tuesday. The company is currently only available to deliver on Tuesdays at lunch, according to Declan Sander ’18, cofounder and chief technology officer of C.U. Doorstep. However, he said delivery options are expected to expand as the business grows to include other restaurants. Sander said he started developing the business last month after recognizing the need for a more cost-efficient outlet for food delivery. “We saw a big inefficiency in the food market,” Sander said. “Students really wanted Chipotle, but there just wasn’t an affordable and easy option to get [the food] onto the Cornell
campus.” While the company has only been servicing students for a week, Sander said the response from the Cornell community has exceeded his expectations. “We received a way bigger response than we expected, which is great,” he said. “It really took off when we posted [the website link] on Facebook, and that’s where most of our orders are actually coming from.” Joe Antonakakis ’18, who used the delivery service for the first time last Tuesday, said he was pleased with his experience. “Ordering the [Chipotle] online was very painless because of the relatively minimalist setup of the website,” he said. “I got my burrito rather quickly, and it was a very smooth process.” The delivery service is holding off on expanding until they “perfect” their business model, most likely will
not occur until after first semester, Sander said. “We had some issues [last Tuesday] with efficiency and communication with our suppliers at Chipotle,” he said. “For the rest of the semester, we’re going to mainly focus on perfecting our supply-chain and making sure that all of the deliveries are on time.”
The company is considering adding “Panera Thursdays” and “Five Guys Fridays” to their delivery options, Sander said. “But going forward, [C.U. Doorstep] is hoping to deliver on other days with other [restaurants] using a similar business model,” he said. Antonakakis said he
will continue ordering from C.U. Doorstep and hopes they are able to expand come second semester. “I’ll definitely use the service again,” he said. “Overall, it was really great experience.” Andrew Lord can be reached at dlord@cornellsun.com.
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Bountiful burritos | Chipotle Mexican Grill is the first restaurant that will be offered through student-run pick-up service C.U. Doorstep.